This previous bug:
http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/582/
dealt with some inconsistencies in usage and formatting of "TEI-conformant" and "TEI-conformable", but it did not address the elephant in the room: "TEI-conformable", as it is defined, is meaningless:
"A document is said to be TEI Conformable if it is a well-formed XML document which can be transformed algorithmically and automatically into a TEI Conformant document as defined above without loss of information."
This applies to any XML document. Even extreme cases of documents containing no TEI-like information at all, any information can be represented using e.g. feature structures. I suggest we remove this phrase from the Guidelines, and thus substantially simplify the USE chapter.
i think we knew what we meant when we invented the idea if "conformable", but I suggest that it has not caught on as a concept in the intervening years, and it may be simpler to drop it.
There is a nice concept of subsumption between XML trees here, though. :-)
Le 9 janv. 2014 à 10:58, Sebastian Rahtz rahtz@users.sf.net a écrit :
Laurent Romary
INRIA & HUB-IDSL
laurent.romary@inria.fr
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Bugs: #634
I'm not so sure. We may be talking about subsumption between information structures here, but these are one or two steps of abstractness away from XML serializations, whether the latter conform to the TEI syntax or not. At least, this is how I understand Martin's point.
+1 for dropping this. Whether it used to be meaningful (maybe in the broader context) at some point, or not, it has always been a source of confusion, in my experience.
Assigning to Paul Schaffner to summarise and report to council
Council agreed to implement 2014-06-30.
Just started this by rmoving one example at revision 12921